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[katherynefromphilly]

I bet most of these aren’t even in Los Angeles too.

The only thing better than cosplayers in the wild is either, just, stealthy cosplay (NO ONE EVER HAS NOTICED MY SHERLOCK COAT) or just people wearing their favorite fandom outfits for shits and giggles.

One day in the Philly area, I stopped in the Wa-Wa for a coffee on the way to work. It’s somewhat early in the morning, so I’m not fully Processing The World, so when I go to get in line, I realize I’m almost butting in line ahead of someone else.

I look up and there is this woman with super short cropped hair in a full-on classic Star Trek gold colored commander’s uniform, bars around the black collar and boots on and and everything, hair slicked down in the 60s style.

My only reaction is: “You go ahead of me. You got here first.”

This person gives me the Courteous Nod that acknowledges someone giving you Manners, and gets in line.

She buys her coffee. I buy mine. As I’m paying, I’m watching the woman in the uniform walking away, admiring the boots she had on.

The cashier notices this, and says, matter-of-fact: “Yeah, she comes in a few times a month like that.”

I say: “Cool.”

She says: “Yeah.”

I was like half a mile from the store before I fully processed the interaction, realizing 3 things:

1) It was wild how Absolutely Normal it felt to me to see someone in a Star Fleet Uniform, just, in the world

2) I hoped it happened again soon, and

3) if I had bumped into someone wearing a Disneyworld-style Mickey Mouse outfit, I would have freaked the fuck out, because that shit is terrifying.

my favorite genre of photo is cosplayer out in a random place in public. and i’m not talking abt malls or hot topic and shit where you’re already more likely to find cosplayers. i’m talking abt seeing like a junko enoshima cosplayer at a mcdonald’s